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Jagz Beach
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Message 1 of 79 (77488)
01-09-2004 10:57 PM


WOW! From what I could tell so far from my brief exposure it seems you all have a very fascinating forum here. Thought this was as good of place as any to ask my question that has been gnawing at me for a few days... Looks like I have a lot of catching up to do! Aloha

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Jagz Beach
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Message 4 of 79 (77592)
01-10-2004 2:48 PM


Well I was educated to believe I was a baboons cousin, but my convictions have me believing that I am a discerning spirit, and that this world was created. Where do you guys stand?
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Jagz Beach
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Message 6 of 79 (77620)
01-10-2004 4:26 PM


Good Question Chiroptera. My convictions are not based on blind faith. My convictions are based on evidence that I have been subjected to while cruising through the experience of reality.
I see evolution as a science that tries to chain together events of creation to being some sort of natural process that can’t be proven thanks to the gulf separating our inheritance cycle. The parallels of creation and evolution are uncanny. I find it fascinating how they both start in pretty much the same place, then evolve from water to land and from creatures small to large. The aero dynamic nature of sea creatures has me fascinated to the fact that the creationists went immediately from the sea to the sky according to creation.
Gen 1:20 And God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl [that] may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.
I see the design of creation regarding the life forms being manifested in other dimensions, and produced in this one at a rate such as that of the speed of light. To me reality as we know it is nothing more than our creators’ Dimensional matrix. Designed for the purpose of educating the hosts of heaven what the ramifications are of not abiding by Gods will of love. The only way to escape the calamity of hell that is about to take hold on this world, is to Believe in God, and follow his son Jesus Christs’ message of love, which is in essence our stairway to heaven.
Reality to me is a text book of how not to act. A message the hosts of heaven will carry for eternity. I think God saw it fit to take a speck of dust (earth) fill it with Godlike hosts to show the hosts of heaven just what would have happened if he allowed a live and let live sentiment to exist in heaven. In order to avoid the chaos and calamity to exist there on such a massive scale, he cleverly decided to create this matrix reality to serve his purpose of the lesson, while simultaneously causing as little damage to the big picture as possible.
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Jagz Beach
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Message 8 of 79 (77630)
01-10-2004 5:10 PM


Regardless of the order the evolutionists came up with Asgara, wouldn't you describe the parallels between creation and evolution as being uncanny?
We recognize the program embodied in the matrix of creation of life encoded in DNA. DNA is like a digital code used by the hosts of creation to come up with the designs of various life forms. I can just see the hosts of heaven using this code to come up with the designs of creatures in this world, while in their make shift labs painting and designing the variety of color the life we recognize in this world, such as parrots or reef fish for example, how about the color and design of insects red ants and turquoise beetles. It facinates me everytime I think about.
BTW it wasn’t pre-sun according to creation.
Gen 1:1 In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.
So you see the sun and earth existed before God's spirit moved upon the face of the water on earth. How long before we know not? BTW I stumbled on to this site when I was reading up on how red shifts seem to want to place our planet in the center of the universe.
Gen 1:2 And the earth was without form, and void; and darkness [was] upon the face of the deep. And the Spirit of God moved upon the face of the waters.
Gen 1:3 And God said, Let there be light: and there was light.
Gen 1:4 And God saw the light, that [it was] good: and God divided the light from the darkness.
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day.
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Jagz Beach
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Message 11 of 79 (77643)
01-10-2004 6:42 PM


First of all I am not claiming to be the sharpest tool in the shed. So bare with me here Sidelined. String theory suggests that there are 10 dimensions. I believe that in order to rationally understand my take, you would have to consider that the events I am referring to would have had had to occur in the other 6 dimensions; where one of our seconds may actually take years to come into fruition Who Knows?
Gen 1:5 And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. And the evening and the morning were the first day
There was obviously light the first day. Lights, rather than light is the key word in the verses you brought to light... Stars, Moon?
14 And God said, "Let there be lights in the expanse of the sky to separate the day from the night, and let them serve as signs to mark seasons and days and years,
15 and let them be lights in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth." And it was so.
16 God made two great lights-the greater light to govern the day and the lesser light to govern the night. He also made the stars.
17 God set them in the expanse of the sky to give light on the earth,
18 to govern the day and the night, and to separate light from darkness. And God saw that it was good
Who knows maybe the moon didn't show up until the fourth day to get the currents and tide flowing, and their may have been some sort of mist to cover up the stars kind of like there are in other galaxies that don't have as sweet of view of the universe as we do...
Life in ocean before land plants according to evolutionists
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Jagz Beach
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Message 13 of 79 (77658)
01-10-2004 8:36 PM


We are able to create a VCR, but who created us? We know that VCR's doesn't become created by throwing a bunch of tools, and parts in a wharehouse. There must be a design as well as a designer, not to mention all the BS involved with getting the idea into some ones living room. VCR's don't just fall out of thin air, and niether did we. I mean how much more complicated is an ant to create, let alone design than a VCR?
If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the universe.
- Carl Sagan
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Jagz Beach
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Message 16 of 79 (77667)
01-10-2004 9:16 PM


Look your right I am not sure what I am trying to say because I wasn't there when creation occurred, nor where any of the scientist who are guessing what they think happened? I don't know squat about the other 6 dimensions, never seen them either? All I know I am not going to throw away my convictions that give me hope, and cling to a BS guess that tells me that a monkey is my cousin.
I believe we were created. How? I can only surmise based on the little we know. The gulfs in our inheritance cycle rules out the natural selection process of evolution of turning a monkey into a man, though it has been known to turn man into a monkey.

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Jagz Beach
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Message 18 of 79 (77669)
01-10-2004 9:21 PM
Reply to: Message 15 by NosyNed
01-10-2004 8:55 PM


Re: One point you missed
"Your discussion of the appearance of VCR's misses one important point. VCR's don't f**k! When you figure out why that is important get back to us."
Too bad their creators haven't figured out how to make them do that yet... Maybe one day they will evolve to the point where they will be able to F**k each other, until then we will have to wait a few billion years to see if that ever happens
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Jagz Beach
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Message 19 of 79 (77670)
01-10-2004 9:27 PM


ETA
For me to postulate creation of life on earth to have occurred in 7 days, well I think you will have to move pretty fast to accomplish something like that. The rate of the speed of light sounds about right. Not necessarily to create as much as to manifest what was created.

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Jagz Beach
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Message 21 of 79 (77674)
01-10-2004 9:36 PM


Let me ask a question, you guys seem pretty smart what do you think I mean by it?

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Jagz Beach
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Message 25 of 79 (77684)
01-10-2004 10:29 PM
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01-10-2004 9:41 PM


They won't mate as long as they are in captivity, you have to set the VCR's free...
If at first you don't succeed try again... Sideline
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Jagz Beach
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Message 27 of 79 (77738)
01-11-2004 12:21 PM


Did I say 7
My bad...
My point is there is no way I am going to be so closed minded as to rule out creation, based on someones guess that was designed merely to rule out creation IMO, with absolutely no empirical evidence to back it up. If you do have empirical evidence there's a quarter of a million dollars in it for ya. But if your not 100% sure, I suggest you don't be so quick to rule out the possibility that we were created. A possibility that actually has evidence to substantiate it.
Their is this zero factor that is puzzling me regarding the six day creation. Now let's get this topic rolling on a little bit further with this interesting question. How long was it from the point of creation/ big bang to the actual moment when God according to scripture actually brought closure to the first day? Could the first day have actually begun from the instant this universe was created to the point where it was concluded here on earth after God said let there be light upon it? Could that have actually allowed for billions of our earth years to have occured, before the actual conclusion of the first earthday when God according to scripture removed the clouds that kept the light from penetrating through? What do you guys think of that?
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Jagz Beach
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Message 30 of 79 (77748)
01-11-2004 12:51 PM


"The offer is legitimate. A wealthy friend of mine has the money in the bank. If the conditions of the offer are met, the money will be paid out immediately. My word is good." Kent Hovind
http://www.drdino.com/cse.asp?pg=250k
Evolution is a big Lie?
LIFE FROM NON-LIFE?
. AT THE CORE OF EVOLUTIONARY THEORY IS THE BIG ASSUMPTION THAT LIFE SOMEHOW AROSE FROM NON-LIFE, that by pure CHANCE the right chemicals happened to be in the right place, in the right arrangement, at the right time, under the right conditions, and by some mysterious, unknown electrochemical process -- POOF -- life created itself! This assumption is completely contrary to a universally accepted and proven law of science, known as the second law of thermodynamics, which states that "All processes (left to themselves) go toward a greater state of disorder, disorganisation, disarrangement and less complexity.". In other words, INANIMATE MATTER NEVER INCREASES ITS OWN ORDER, ORGANISATION OR COMPLEXITY--THESE ALWAYS DECREASE! And even if the elements could arrange themselves into a certain definite pattern, as is necessary for life, they could not make themselves a living cell because LIFE is not a mere physical arrangement of chemicals! The likelihood of this happening is so far-fetches that Princeton University Professor of Biology Edwin Conklin has said: "The probability of life originating from accident is comparable to the probability of the unabridged dictionary resulting from an explosion in a printing shop."
. As for the so-called "simple cell", from which the evolutionists say all living creatures have evolved, Look Magazine declared, "THE CELL IS AS COMPLICATED AS NEW YOUR CITY." The well-known evolutionist Loren Eisely likewise admitted in his book, The Immense Journey, that "Intensified effort revealed that even the supposedly simple amoeba was a complex, self-operating chemical factory. The notion that he was a simple blob, the discovery of whose chemical composition would enable us instantly to set the life process in operation, turned out to be, at best, a monstrous caricature of the truth.". Can you imagine a dictionary, a chemical factory, or New York City, coming into existence by itself--POOF--without any assistance from an intelligent designer, planner or creator? Such is the logic of evolution's imaginary assumption that the infinitely complex "simple" cell accidentally came together and came alive by blind, unguided chance! Commenting on this assumption, the British biologist Woodger said, "It is simple dogmatism--asserting that what you want to believe did in fact happen." The absurdity of this evolutionary logic is only amplified as we move on to the even more complex, multi-celled forms of life.
http://www.geocities.com/...ayjordan/EvolutionisaBIGLIE.html
EVIDENCE FOR CREATION
1. The Fossil Record...Evolutionists have constructed the Geologic Column in order to illustrate the supposed progression of "primitive" life forms to "more complex" systems we observe today. Yet, "since only a small percentage of the earth's surface obeys even a portion of the geologic column the claim of their having taken place to form a continuum of rock/life/time over the earth is therefore a fantastic and imaginative contrivance.1" "[T]he lack of transitional series cannot be explained as being due to the scarcity of material. The deficiencies are real, they will never be filled."2 This supposed column is actually saturated with "polystrate fossils" (fossils extending from one geologic layer to another) that tie all the layers to one time-frame. "[T]o the unprejudiced, the fossil record of plants is in favor of special creation." 3
2. Decay of Earth's Magnetic Field... Dr. Thomas Barnes, Emeritus Professor of Physics at the University of Texas at El Paso, has published the definitive work in this field.4 Scientific observations since 1829 have shown that the earth's magnetic field has been measurably decaying at an exponential rate, demonstrating its half-life to be approximately 1,400 years. In practical application its strength 20,000 years ago would approximate that of a magnetic star. Under those conditions many of the atoms necessary for life processes could not form. These data demonstrate that earth's entire history is young, within a few thousand of years.
3. The Global Flood... The Biblical record clearly describes a global Flood during Noah's day. Additionally, there are hundreds of Flood traditions handed down through cultures all over the world. 5 M.E. Clark and Henry Voss have demonstrated the scientific validity of such a Flood providing the sedimentary layering we see on every continent. 6 Secular scholars report very rapid sedimentation and periods of great carbonate deposition in earth's sedimentary layers..7 It is now possible to prove the historical reality of the Biblical Flood.8
4. Population Statistics...World population growth rate in recent times is about 2% per year. Practicable application of growth rate throughout human history would be about half that number. Wars, disease, famine, etc. have wiped out approximately one third of the population on average every 82 years. Starting with eight people, and applying these growth rates since the Flood of Noah's day (about 4500 years ago) would give a total human population at just under six billion people. However, application on an evolutionary time scale runs into major difficulties. Starting with one "couple" just 41,000 years ago would give us a total population of 2 x 1089. 9 The universe does not have space to hold so many bodies.
5. Radio Halos...Physicist Robert Gentry has reported isolated radio halos of polonuim-214 in crystalline granite. The half-life of this element is 0.000164 seconds! To record the existence of this element in such short time span, the granite must be in crystalline state instantaneously.10 This runs counter to evolutionary estimates of 300 million years for granite to form.
6. Human Artifacts throughout the Geologic Column...Man-made artifacts - such as the hammer in Cretaceous rock, a human sandal print with trilobite in Cambrian rock, human footprints and a handprint in Cretaceous rock — point to the fact that all the supposed geologic periods actually occurred at the same time in the recent past.11
7. Helium Content in Earth's Atmosphere... Physicist Melvin Cook, Nobel Prize medalist found that helium-4 enters our atmosphere from solar wind and radioactive decay of uranium. At present rates our atmosphere would accumulate current helium-4 amounts in less than 10,000 years.12
8. Expansion of Space Fabric...Astronomical estimates of the distance to various galaxies gives conflicting data.13 The Biblical Record refers to the expansion of space by the Creator14. Astrophysicist Russell Humphries demonstrates that such space expansion would dilate time in distant space.15 This could explain a recent creation with great distances to the stars.
9. Design in Living Systems...A living cell is so awesomely complex that its interdependent components stagger the imagination and defy evolutionary explanations. A minimal cell contains over 60,000 proteins of 100 different configurations.16 The chance of this assemblage occurring by chance is 1 in 10 4,478,296 .17
10. Design in the Human Brain...The human brain is the most complicated structure in the known universe.18 It contains over 100 billion cells, each with over 50,000 neuron connections to other brain cells.19 This structure receives over 100 million separate signals from the total human body every second. If we learned something new every second of our lives, it would take three million years to exhaust the capacity of the human brain. 20 In addition to conscious thought, people can actually reason, anticipate consequences, and devise plans - all without knowing they are doing so.21
http://www.creationevidence.org/...dencefor/evidencefor.html

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Jagz Beach
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Message 32 of 79 (77759)
01-11-2004 1:20 PM


I am a newbie around these here parts and have not had the time to read over the hundred refutes sorry... Take a chill back off with your anxiety attacks already.
So for My zero factor concept from this crowd all I get is a "I think it's a clumsy attempt to squeeze the text of the Bible into the cosmological data in a sad effort to preserve the perceived inerrancy of a 2000-year-old book."?
What a bunch of Einstein’s you all turned out to be
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Jagz Beach
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Message 34 of 79 (77761)
01-11-2004 1:26 PM


"I think you are making a mistake by thinking that evolution negates creation, they are compatible as evolution does not present an explanation as to where the first lifeform came from, it is only used to explain the diversity of life."
Doesn't the second law of thermodynamics debunk that theory?

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